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Law firm franchise reinvents itself as online legal service for businesses
Friday, 16 November 2012Simplify the Law – a law firm franchise concept which launched last year – has reinvented itself as an online legal service that aims to help commercial lawyers repel new competition in the market, Legal Futures can report.
Tags: Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor, Marketing & PR
Pioneering legal website launches law firm referral panel
Tuesday, 6 November 2012The company that says it was the first in the UK to provide free online legal advice for both businesses and consumers is to launch its first law firm panel for referrals – although it will not charge for them.
Tags: Online Legal Services, referral fees
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor, Marketing & PR
Online pay-as-you-go legal advice service bids to crowd-source £1.5m funding
Monday, 29 October 2012An attempt to ‘crowd fund’ £1.5m for the launch of what is claimed to be the world’s first live online pay-as-you-go legal advice service will begin this week. Quegal will charge users 60p a minute to receive advice from junior solicitors and paralegals.
Tags: Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor, Technology
Smith: put online NHS Direct for law at heart of radically reformed legal aid system
Monday, 22 October 2012An online NHS Direct for law, supported by 30 law centre-type operations in key areas around the country, should form the basis of a radical new approach to publicly funded legal services, according to a leading legal thinker.
Tags: legal aid, Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Technology, Uncategorized
Wigster bids for 500-strong law firm panel after bringing in ex-Minster Law CEO to lead expansion
Friday, 5 October 2012Legal comparison website Wigster.com has unveiled plans to increase its 100-strong law firm panel five-fold as it seeks to step up its presence in the market. Matthew Briggs, former CEO of Minster Law and Capita Insurance Services, has joined as a director to drive growth.
Tags: Online Legal Services, price comparison
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR
Survey: consumers keen on online legal services – so long as there is professional support
Thursday, 4 October 2012Consumers are open to using online legal services, so long as they are coupled with professional support, according to new research. A survey of 503 consumers found that over two-thirds were attracted by the idea of performing legal tasks on the Internet.
Tags: Online Legal Services, probate, will-writing
Posted in Latest news, Technology
Commercial firms “surprisingly” confident of profitability hike
Monday, 1 October 2012Two-thirds of commercial law firms are surprisingly confident of increasing profits by at least 10% in each of the next two years, despite concern about competition from ABSs, according to new research.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, fixed fees, mergers, Online Legal Services, Technology
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
QS unveils exclusive LegalZoom deal ahead of 'anti-supermarket law' advertising campaign
Thursday, 20 September 2012QualitySolicitors has today unveiled an exclusive partnership with online legal services provider LegalZoom – the most recognised legal brand in the US – ahead of an advertising campaign that will by openly hostile to supermarkets, banks and others offering legal services.
Tags: Online Legal Services, QualitySolicitors, supermarket law
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor, Marketing & PR
AIM-listed conveyancing business eyes new law firm acquisition
Monday, 17 September 2012Online conveyancing business In-Deed is lining up a second law firm acquisition as it shifts its focus away from a direct-to-consumer model, its first annual report has revealed. The AIM-listed company’s chairman is Rightmove founder Harry Hill.
Tags: conveyancing, Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Legal Services Act, Market monitor
Here come the ‘Super Lawyers’ as US rating service launches in UK
Monday, 3 September 2012Global publishing giant Thomson Reuters has launched a London-based pilot of its US Super Lawyers attorney-rating service covering solicitors, the first foreign venture of its kind after more than 20 years in operation.
Tags: Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR
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Five key issues to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech
As generative AI starts to play a bigger role in our working lives, there are some key issues that your law firm needs to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech.
Bulk litigation – not always working in consumers interests
For consumers to get the benefit, bulk litigation needs to be done well, and we are increasingly concerned that there are significant problems in some areas of this market.
ABSs, cost and audits – fixing regulation after Axiom Ince
A feature of law firm collapses and frauds has sometimes been the over-concentration of power in outdated and overburdened systems of control.
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